Beautiful! It worked. Thanks so much.
________________________________ From: Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 3:12 PM Subject: Re: Problem escaping ampersands in HTTP GET On 8/12/2013 12:49 PM, John Randall wrote: > I am using an HTTP GET to add docs to Solr. All the docs load fine as long as > none contain an ampersand. I get a syntax error when a doc contains a field, > for example, with the phrase "Jack & Jill". > > How can I escape the ampersand so that the doc loads normally? If the input format of your document is XML and it's in the URL on a GET, then you'll need to do two kinds of encoding - first to XML (&) and then URL. The final string for a single ampersand after both kinds of encoding is: %26amp%3B If you are using JSON format, then I think you could just use %26 for an ampersand. This is one reason that POST is preferred to GET. Thanks, Shawn
